Nortel bets on 4G services by 2010

Nortel bets on 4G services by 2010

Nortel has exited the 3G equipment business to concentrate on next-generation 4G technology.

Fourth-generation (4G) mobile data services delivered over cellular networks could offer up to 40Mbit/s of bandwidth to end-users, but they may not appear in the UK or Europe until 2010, telecoms vendor Nortel said last week.

Nortel last week sold its 3G access business to rival Alcatel and said that it sees more value in developing 4G equipment based on orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) technology for use in core operator networks.



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